When Will Power Be Fully Restored In Massachusetts?

BOSTON, MA — Electric utilities expected to have power restored to most Massachusetts residents on Saturday, following a 48-hour effort to clean up and repair downed power lines. Crews made "significant progress" in the early morning hours Saturday, according to the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency. By 6:30 a.m. Saturday, 16852 Massachusetts electric customers were still without power —down from a high of more than 200,000 in the immediate aftermath of the Thursday morning's storm.

National Grid and Eversource, the state's biggest electric utilities, have activated thousands of line workers. By Saturday morning, power had been restored to more than 95 percent of customers in most eastern Massachusetts towns. There were, however, pockets in central Massachusetts where up to 60 percent of customers were still without power.

National Grid, which had originally estimated some areas would not have service restored until Sunday, revised those estimates. As of Saturday morning, when fewer than 10,000 of its 1.33 million Massachusetts customers were without power, National Grid was on pace to finish most, if not all, of the repair work by the end of the day.

The utility said the estimates posted on its outage map are the best projection of when 95 percent of customers in an area will have power restored under the worst-case scenario.

As of 10:30 a.m. on Saturday morning, Eversource said the number of its 1.16 million customers in eastern Massachusetts without power was under 7,000. It expected to restore power in Plymouth County by 4 p.m. and on Cape Cod by 8 p.m. on Saturday.